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S. D. BAKER.

WALL FIXTURE ELEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.16. 1915.

1,3 1 1 ,635. Patented July 29, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1919,

Application filed December It}, 1916. Serial No. 137,334.

or elements, and it has for its object to provide a fixture which will improve the appearance of the wall, as by harmonizing with the tile or the like of which it is composed, and which may be secured in place 7 in such manner asto be to all intents and purposes practically integral with the wall.

According to this invention I provide in a single integral elementa body member formed with a Hat rear face to bear and obtain a purchase against the face of the wall and a thick relatively short adhesion-plug projecting from said face of the body member; the wall is formed with a recess closely conforming to the plug in shape and size as to both the transverse and longitudinal sections of the plug, the fixture composed of said body member and plug being arranged in the wall by having the plug thereof fitted into said recess and the fiat rear face of said body member bearing fiat against the surface of the wall; and a thin layer of adhesive is interposed between the several surfaces ofthe plug and recess.

The objects being to secure the fixture to the wall so that to all intents and purposes it will be integral therewith and so that the rear face of the body member can be brought to bear squarely against the face of the wall, leaving no unsightly crevice between them, I have found it indispensable that the resistance to displacement, due to strains or shocks, shall be afforded as directly as may be by the wall itself, wherefore the plug nearly fits the recess and the quantity of cement used forms but a thin layer and so Y acts almost only as a means simply to keep the plug from being pulled out of the recess; and that the plug should bemade thick and relatively short, whereby to resist fracture and so that with the thin layer of cement spread over its surfaces, or those of the recess, when the plug is driven home into the recess it will remain spread over substantially all of such surfaces, as it obviously would not be if the plug were long, in which case by the time the plug was fully home much of said surfaces would be wiped clear of cement and the latter would be forced out of the recess and interpose itself between the rear face of the body member and the surface of the wall. 4

In the accompanying drawing,

F igure l shows a tiled wall in front elevation with a fixture embodying my invention fitted thereto and consisting in the present case of a towel rack, embodying two of the fixture elements each in the form of a post and a bar connecting them;

Fig. 2 shows in side elevation the fixture element secured in the preferred manner in the wall, which is shown in section; and,

Fig. 3 is a front elevation ofthe wall with the tile element in section in a plane coincident with the front face of the wall.

The fixture element includes a body portion a having a'fiat rear face I) and a thick plug 0 projecting rearwardly from said face; the body member a and the plug are integral, being preferably composed of some material which will afford a porous surface as to the plug 0 thereof. I prefer to use as the material for the fixture element some ceramic material, such as is employed in the tiles themselves, because such material may be formed porous as to the plug of the fixture element and will harmonize with the tiling, being glazed or otherwise treated to that end;

It is contemplated that the fixture elemen is to be secured in place by forming a recess,

It is for this reason that I provide the fiat bearing face 6, which is preferably of appreciable area, and further make the plug 0 stocky or thick, as. shown.

The wall is shown in the present instance as including a backing (Z, say of cement, and tiles 6 adhering to the face of the backing d, being built up as a layer thereon in the usual manner. To receive the plug 0 a recess f is formed in the wall conforming closely in size and shape to that of the plug 0. Pref erably the plug a is longer than the thickness of the tiling layer 9, and the recess being correspondingly deep so that the face 6 may bear against the front face of the tiling, the plug not only projects through the tiling but into the backing d. Before introducing the plug it may be covered with a mass of cement g or the cement may be applied into the recess over its various surfaces, Whereupon the plug is forced in and the cementing material allowed to set.

To insure against possibility of movement uf any kind, the plug and recess are preferably made angular in cross-section as shown best in Fig. 3. This formation of the plug further facilitates an even distribution of the thin layer of cement, which condition it is very important to observe in order to obtain a firm anchorage and leave no cement and consequently an unsightly space between the face of the wall and the face I) of the part a.

In the present instance the body member a is in the form of a post, being one of a pair which receive the ends of a bar it and form therewith a towel rack. But the member a may have the form of any fixture.

In my invention the fixture becomes to all intents and purposes an integral part of the wall; shocks or strains will not loosen it in the wall, because the cement is a thin layer and any tendency toward movement of the fixture in the wall is thereforeresisted practically by the wall itself; and it is possible to attach it to the wall with uniformly good results as to evenness of distributionof the recess and plug and without causing the cement to exude and interpose itself between the rear face I) of the body member of the fixture and the face of the wall and thus leave an unsightly crevice.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 2-- v I 1. In combination, with a wall having a cement between the opposed surfaces of the i recess in the face thereof, a fixture element having a flat rear face bearing against the said face of the wall and a relatively short adhesion-plug projecting from the rear face of said element into said recess and formed sion-plug rectangular in cross-section pro-,

jecting from the rear face of said element into said recess and formed thick relatively to its length in any transverse dimension thereof, said recess closely conforming tothe plug as to both. the transverse and longitudinal sections thereof in both shape and size and a thin layer of adhesive interposed between the surfaces of said lug and recess.

In testimony whereof I a my signature.

STEPHEN n. BAKER. 

